Bachmann narrowly defeated Paul in the Iowa Straw Poll earlier this month, with Perry in sixth place as a write-in. The longtime Texas governor was announcing his candidacy in South Carolina the same day.

The PPP survey shows a sharp drop in support for Romney, who scored 26 percent in a previous survey.

Other Republicans candidates run far behind. Ex-Godfather’s Pizza boss Herman Cain is at 7 percent, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has faded to 5 percent. Gingrich was last seen campaigning in Maui over the weekend.

Ex-Sen. Rick Santorum, a religiously rightist target of The Stranger’s Dan Savage, is at 5 percent. And 5 percent of those surveyed said they don’t like anybody in the field.

PPP is a pollster who has worked for Democrats, but its surveys have shown lower support levels for President Obama than many of its competitors. The latest poll was sponsored by the liberal dailykos.com web site, which has delighted in highlighting Perry’s off-the-cuff remarks questioning Evolution and climate change. The survey has a margin of error of plus/minus 5.5 percent.